A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Tuesday, Jan 12th, 2016
--- TO MY FRIENDS ---
Our District Mens and Womens Division leaders
shoulder the responsibility
Tuesday, Jan 12th, 2016
--- TO MY FRIENDS ---
Our District Mens and Womens Division leaders
shoulder the responsibility
of the happiness and prosperity
of all our fellow members in the area!
We applaud you and appreciate your valiant efforts
as the forerunners of our kosen-rufu movement
from the bottom of our hearts!
Tuesday, Jan 12th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever."
(Happiness in This World
of all our fellow members in the area!
We applaud you and appreciate your valiant efforts
as the forerunners of our kosen-rufu movement
from the bottom of our hearts!
Tuesday, Jan 12th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever."
(Happiness in This World
- WND, Vol 1, page 681)
Selection source: Teachings of Buddhism,
Selection source: Teachings of Buddhism,
Seikyo Shimbun, Dec 19th, 2015
Wednesday, Jan 13th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Shakyamuni Buddha teaches . . . that one who makes offerings to the votary of the Lotus Sutra in the latter age for even a single day will gain benefit a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, million times greater than one would by offering countless treasures to the Buddha for one million kalpas.'
Wednesday, Jan 13th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Shakyamuni Buddha teaches . . . that one who makes offerings to the votary of the Lotus Sutra in the latter age for even a single day will gain benefit a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, million times greater than one would by offering countless treasures to the Buddha for one million kalpas.'
- From "The Person and the Law," (WND-1, 1097).
"The Mystic Law is the fundamental Law by which all Buddhas attain enlightenment. None are more respect-worthy than practitioners of the Lotus Sutra who spread the Mystic Law in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law. The SGI, the organisation carrying out the Buddha's decree, is a gathering of practitioners of the Lotus Sutra. Therefore, the benefit gained from protecting and taking action to support the SGI is boundless and immeasurable.
"I am praying earnestly that all of you, our dedicated members throughout the world, will enjoy inexhaustible good fortune and benefit and lead lives of deep satisfaction and fulfilment."
SGI Newsletter No. 9332, Living the Gosho: Words of Encouragement (2), (71) Supporting the SGI Brings Immeasurable Benefit, from 11th Dec., 2015, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun translation released 7th Jan., 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
web-site address at http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU---
CHIKU BUCHO, FUJINBUCHO WA
WAGA CHIKI NO DOSHI NO
KOFUKU SEKININSHANARI!
KOFU ZENSHINSEN O KAKERU
TOTOKI FUNTO NI KOKORO KARA KANSHA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOIAWASETE NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO UCHITONAE ISASE TAMAE KORE ANI JIJUHORAKU NI ARAZUYA IYOIYO GOJONO SHINRIKI O ITASHI TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1143)
web-site address at http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU---
CHIKU BUCHO, FUJINBUCHO WA
WAGA CHIKI NO DOSHI NO
KOFUKU SEKININSHANARI!
KOFU ZENSHINSEN O KAKERU
TOTOKI FUNTO NI KOKORO KARA KANSHA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOIAWASETE NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO TO UCHITONAE ISASE TAMAE KORE ANI JIJUHORAKU NI ARAZUYA IYOIYO GOJONO SHINRIKI O ITASHI TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1143)
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from there on it is all automatic!
ALSO if you want to introduce a friend to the SGI but just don't know where to start, share with them the following addresses and they can read and watch some very well put together explanations about the SGI. Check it out yourself!
http://www.sgi.org/
http://www.sgi-uk.org/buddhism/practise
Check out the following address if you are looking for an important gosho quote
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org
And for the children there's a wonderful new web-site
http://treasures-of-heart.com/
And if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo/conversations/messages
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